List of official languages

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[edit] Official languages of supra-national institutions

See List of official languages by institution.


[edit] Official languages of sovereign countries

There are approximately 110 languages in this category.

Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Afrikaans:

Albanian:

Amharic:

Arabic:

Armenian:

Assamese:

Aymara:

Azeri:

Basque:

Belarusian:

Bengali:

Bislama:

Bosnian:

Bulgarian:

Burmese:

Catalan:

Chinese (see also List of Chinese dialects):

Croatian

Czech:

Danish

Dari:

Dhivehi:

Dutch:

Dzongkha:

English (see also List of countries where English is an official language):

Estonian:

Fijian

Filipino:

Finnish:

French (see also List of countries where French is an official language):

Frisian:

Georgian:

German:

Greek:

Guaraní

Gujarati:

Haitian Creole:

Hebrew:

Hindi

Hiri Motu:

Hungarian:

Icelandic:

Indonesian:

Irish Gaelic is the national and first official language of:

Italian:

Japanese:

Kannada:

Kashmiri:

Kazakh:

Khmer:

Korean:

Kurdish:

  • Iraq (with Arabic)

Kyrgyz:

Lao:

Latin:

Latvian:

Lithuanian:

Luxembourgish:

Macedonian:

Malagasy:

Malay:

Malayalam:

Maltese:

Māori:

Marathi:

Moldovan (asserted by Moldova state representatives to be distinct from Romanian; most linguists remain skeptical):

Mongolian

Ndebele:

Nepali:

New Zealand Sign Language:

Northern Sotho:

Norwegian:

  • Norway (two official written forms - Bokmål and Nynorsk)

Oriya:

Pashto:

Persian:

Polish:

Portuguese:

Punjabi:

Quechua

Romanian:

  • Moldova (officially named Moldovan, but disputed by most professional linguists; called Romanian in the everyday life as well as schools)
  • Romania
  • part of Serbia
    • Vojvodina (with Croatian, Serbian, Hungarian, Slovak and Ruthenian)

Rhaeto-Romansh:

Russian:

Sanskrit:

Serbian:

Sindhi:

Sinhala:

Slovak

Slovene:

Somali:

Sotho:

Spanish:

Swahili:

Swati:

Swedish:

Tajik:

Tamil:

Telugu:

Tetum:

Thai:

Tok Pisin:

Tsonga:

Tswana:

Turkish:

Turkmen:

Ukrainian:

Urdu:

Uzbek:

Venda:

Vietnamese:

Welsh:

Xhosa:

Zulu:

[edit] Ranking of languages by number of sovereign countries in which they are official


In Africa:

In the Americas:

In Asia:

In Europe:

In Oceania:

  • 12 countries: English
  • 1 country: numerous languages

By number of continents:

  • All 6 continents:
    • English (Africa: 19 countries; North America: 13 countries; Oceania: 12 countries; Asia: 4 countries; Europe: 3 countries; South America: 1 country)
  • 4 continents:
    • French (Africa: 21 countries; Europe: 5 countries; North America: 2 countries; Oceania: 1 country)
    • Portuguese (Africa: 5 countries; South America: 1 country; Europe: 1 country; Asia: 1 country)
    • Spanish (South America: 9 countries; North America: 8 countries; Europe: 2 countries; Africa: 2 countries)
  • 2 continents:
    • Arabic (Africa: 12 countries; Asia: 12 countries)
    • Russian (Europe: 2 countries; Asia: 2 countries)
    • Dutch (Europe: 2 countries; The Americas: 1 country)
    • Urdu (Asia: 2 countries; Oceania: 1 country)
    • Hindi (Asia: 1 country; Oceania: 1 country)
    • Japanese (Asia: 1 country; Oceania: 1 country)
  • 1 continent: numerous other languages, of which German (6 countries) and Italian (4 countries) spoken in the most countries

[edit] Official languages of subnational entities

Albanian:

  • Kosovo (with Serbian and English; Turkish is official in the Prizren District only).

Aranese see Occitan

Armenian:

Basque:

Cantonese Chinese:

  • Hong Kong (for Chinese language, both Cantonese and Mandarin are spoken de facto; co-official with English)
  • Macao (for Chinese language, both Cantonese and Mandarin are spoken de facto; co-official with Portuguese)

Catalan:

Chipewyan:

  • Northwest Territories (with Cree, English, French, Gwich'in, Innuinaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, North Slavey, South Slavey and Tłįchǫ (Dogrib))

Cree:

  • Northwest Territories (with Chipewyan, English, French, Gwich'in, Innuinaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, North Slavey, South Slavey and Tłįchǫ (Dogrib))

Dogrib|Tłįchǫ:

  • Northwest Territories (with Cree, Chipewyan, English, French, Gwich'in, Innuinaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, North Slavey, and South Slavey)

English:

Faroese:

French:

Galician:

Gwich'in:

  • Northwest Territories (with Cree, Chipewyan, English, French, Innuinaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, North Slavey, South Slavey and Tłįchǫ (Dogrib))

Hawaiian:

  • Hawai'i (co-official with English in the state of Hawai'i)

Innuiauqtun:

(with Cree, Chipewyan, English, French, Gwich'in, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, North Slavey, South Slavey and Tłįchǫ (Dogrib))

Inuktitut:

  • Greenland (with Danish)
  • Nunavut (with English, French, and Inuvialuktun)
  • Northwest Territories (with Cree, Chipewyan, English, French, Gwich'in, Innuinaqtun, Inuvialuktun, North Slavey, South Slavey and Tłįchǫ (Dogrib))

Inuvialuktun:

  • Nunavut (with English, French, and Inuktitut)
  • Northwest Territories (with Cree, Chipewyan, English, French, Gwich'in, Innuinaqtun, Inuktitut, North Slavey, South Slavey and Tłįchǫ (Dogrib))

Mazandarani:

Occitan (Aranese):

Rusyn:

  • Vojvodina (with Croatian, Serbian, Romanian, Hungarian, Slovak)

Sami:

  • Finland (in four municipalities)
  • Norway (in six municipalities)
  • Sweden (in four municipalities and surrounding municipalities)

North and South Slavey:

  • Northwest Territories (with Cree, Chipewyan, English, French, Gwich'in, Innuinaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, and Tłįchǫ (Dogrib))

Spanish:

Tahitian:

Tibetan:

  • Tibet Autonomous Region (with Chinese (Mandarin))
  • Aba (with Chinese (Mandarin))
  • Garzê (with Chinese (Mandarin))
  • Diqing (with Chinese (Mandarin))
  • Wenshan (with Chinese (Mandarin))
  • Gannan (with Chinese (Mandarin))
  • Haibai (with Chinese (Mandarin))
  • Hainan (with Chinese (Mandarin))
  • Huangnan (with Chinese (Mandarin))
  • Golog (with Chinese (Mandarin))
  • Gyêgu (with Chinese (Mandarin))
  • Haixi (with Mongolian and Chinese (Mandarin))
  • Muli (with Chinese (Mandarin))
  • Tianzhu (with Chinese (Mandarin))

Tswana:


Uyghur:

Vietnamese:

Yiddish:

Zhuang:

A map of official languages: (note: source is CIA World Factbook. Countries that include several official languages only use one, often to avoid adding languages to the chart unnecessarily, preventing confusion. In showing de facto as well as de jure official languages, the map employs a looser definition of "official language" than that used in this article.) Official Languages Maps

[edit] See also

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